Security assurances and nuclear nonproliferation
By: edited by Jeffrey W. Knopf
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780804778275
Subjects: International Security; Nuclear nonproliferation; National security
Description: This title explores how, while policy makers and scholars have long devoted considerable attention to strategies like deterrence, which threaten others with unacceptable consequences, such threat-based strategies are not always the best option. In some cases, a state may be better off seeking to provide a sense of security.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Security assurances : initial hypotheses / Jeffrey W. Knopf; title: The psychology of assurance : an emotional tale / Janice Gross Stein; title: The role of security assurances in the nuclear nonproliferation regime / John Simpson; title: Libya, nuclear rollback, and the role of negative and positive security assurances / Wyn Q. Bowen; title: Security assurances and Iran : assessment and re-conceptualization / Jim Walsh; title: Maintaining Japan's non-nuclear identity : the role of U.S. security assurances / Yuki Tatsumi; title: Infusing commitment with credibility : the role of security assurances in cementing the U.S.-ROK alliance / Scott Snyder and Joyce Lee; title: Assessing the role of security assurances in dealing with North Korea / John S. Park; title: The United States and Swedish plans to build the bomb, 1945-1968 / Thomas Jonter; title: The "model" of Ukrainian denuclearization / Sherman W. Garnett.